overstate Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth
    overdraw; magnify; exaggerate; hyperbolize; hyperbolise; amplify.
    • tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery

WordNet

O`ver*state" transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Overstated; present participle & verbal noun Overstating
Definitions
  1. To state in too strong terms; to exaggerate. Fuller.

Webster 1913